Healthy Chicken Stew
Easy, low-fat, chicken stew with lots of veggies
Equipment
- Slow Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 sweet onions diced
- 3 stalks celery diced
- 4 carrots peeled and sliced into rounds
- 2 medium russet potatoes peeled and diced into small bite-sized pieces
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tsp salt
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp dried thyme
- ½ tsp poultry or Italian seasoning
- 3 lbs boneless chicken breasts
- 4 cups chicken broth or chicken stock
- 1 TBS corn starch + 1 TBS cold water
- For garnish: chopped fresh parsley
Instructions
- Place onions, celery, carrots, potatoes, bay leaf, salt, paprika, thyme, and poultry seasoning in the bottom of a large slow cooker. Stir to combine.
- Place chicken on top of vegetables. Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- Pour chicken broth over everything, cover, and cook on LOW for 8 hrs.
- With 30 mins left in the cooking time, shred the chicken and return meat to the slow cooker. Discard bay leaf.
- In a small bowl, whisk together corn starch and cold water until smooth. Stir into the stew and cook on HIGH without the lid for 30 mins.
- Best served in bread bowls (can reduce/skip potatoes if doing this)